Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-26

is i've, Judicial ana executive ana AZ tne SAM
time specifically stating what were The inallen
a le rights of the states, He ell lay the hsr
Monies Of nation, the foundation OF grea
and beneGcent government, planted, 1t wa
IhOught, securely for all time. But not so W.
have seen the wo which required the h.r,
c oquence of Patrick Henry, the deliberatiT'
judgment of Washington. the lie
gal accumen of Jefferson, Tn
6uainess sense of Hancock, The sturdy argu
ments of Adams and the philosophical honest
of Franklin-we have seen this grand ana glor
GUS practically undone within the space OF
few years.
We lave been told that the late war settled
all these things, and that sucn settlement was
the price CT the life of the Union. Msy be SO
am not here to talk of war or the results or WI
put mark my words Mr.. President, II things DC
not change soon the Union Will need anotr ct
savior and next time Will turn 10 the soutH ~. !
succor. The 81 me fauatlCism which drove tAe
south from the Union in 1851 Is still al
wore, and unless checked Will drive somebody
else ont or 80 out Itself. Should the latter
| event occur Ii Is hard to say which would ar
| ford the south the greater pleasure-to whip
this crowd back or TO allow them 10 remain
out. These internal disturbances which,, by
| TIE way, eliminate eomc times IN the assasina-
| ton of a president, are born Of the isms bred
| in the land where little over century ago
| the Cotton Mathers were butehering men ana
burning women at the stake for being witches.
This same pu it4nical fanaticism, which Edi-
| tor Grady so eloquently eulogizes, began to
crop out in the convention where the con
stitution of the nation Is written !;
/
was fairly on Its feet, II led crusade against
the southern section of the Union, when Gull
minated in a long and bloody war; and now
J just think oft, these gift-bearing Greeks come
Z to us with honey on their tongues and talk TO
J us of "New South"
And this brings me to point wish TO make,
and to emphasize with all the power POSSIBLE
and that is, that there is no New South" in
the sense at least in which the term Is being
applied. The phrase is a New England
coiaage, designed in the interest Oh selnsh
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do Indirectly what 1t cannot hope to DO directly
1t is unjust because 1t IL lie; aud 1t is SIAN
der upon our people because itinvolYes inndel-
ity on their part to principles when shoula De
sacred even unto the last generation. Why
should there be New South, any more than
q New North" There have been no national
changes here In the character or Qualities OIL our
people. Our Ideas are the same, our o. Unions
are unchanged, we worship the same GOO In
the same old way, we love our heroes ana
glory in q history the lroudest attach
are the same brave, open-hearted people, and
the only changes can eee are those naturally
expected To follow the end OF long and bloody
war. True, we waded knee deep in ruin ana
desolation saw our homes destroyed and our
property swept away we found ourselves sud-
denly reduced from 9fhueH-c TO poverty, ana
what little we had left became the prey OF the
Carpe Dagger and imported taX-gathefer, But
a idst all this, our principles grounded In q
proverbial love of home, have remained un
scethed True sl4very has been apol-
ished, and the right of secession aOah-
G fo2@ the out basis tsI Of "Sew South.
Our pc pie have p1Ogresse ed in common with
those Of other countries, and that progress mas
been accelerated by new and improved
methods of agriculture, science and the
mechanics; but this has not the slightest
Significance, IN a sectional or pOlttial sense,
prejudiced northern writer's and southern
sycOphants to the contrary notwithstanding
one of this latter class, professor in Wander
but University. writing TO the Cent|ary
Magazine stated that II was the white people of
the south more than the blacks, who were
Wilbur Fisk Tlllett-add / know he Is not
southern man from the way in which he writes
his name-speaks of the southern white people
as consuming the first GaCahc after the war in
wearing the black gaTb Of mou ming for the
lost cause" and voicin$ their only feeling
through Father Ryans mOur1ful thTenOdies."
re kindly informs us also that everything
which the alleged New nth" has done, and
ia doing, in the development of diversified in
dustTies and material prosperity, in education
and literature, in morals and religion, are due
TO the emancipation of tie white men of the
south"
Imeation what this bahbler says merely to
indicate what is meant by the oft-repeated
phase New South" 1t would be time wasted
here, gentlemen TO argue against these gratu-
itOut and even insolent attentions to our sec
ton. We all know the animus and can appre-
ciate the motive. But there is one thought
which / would Impress upon you gentlemen
here to day, one danger which l would point
out. The history Of the south is being written,
and Altogether too much oft by such men as
the one just quoted. 1t is easy enough to write
the history of the cOnquerOr; 1t is the con-
quered that must fear misrepresentation,
AS was said recently by one of the
sOuth's most elOquen. sons, Sin the average es-
timatiOn or mankind victory vindicates, while
defeat gooms to misjudGment and thoughtless-
ness condemn nation. These were the words
of phiosoph r, and the proposition stated In
wolves truth so plain that the simplest stu
dent of human nature can master It's logical Sc.
quence
That great Georgian, Governor John b, Cor
don, in public speech recently delivered in
Augusta, pursuing this very line OF thought
and desire that you weigh carefully his words
saij. "Should such misfortune beiall us, 1t
requires no prophet TO foretel the Character
and extent of those consequences. First, there
would follow decrease of our appreciation of
this section and of It's people.
quence, dimiautiOn of our own self-respect;
next, gradual but!Certain retrogTessiOn and In
pairment of our manhood; and finally, the los.
of those distictive charac .eristicS which are
the traditional, recognized and chief sources
of this peoples gre 1tness No more important
service could be rendered this country-not
only the South but the whole country-then TO
clearly comprehend these dangers and erect
firm and immovable barriers, mountain high, |
against these possible consequences "
Here Is an answer complete to she advocates
for New South" 1t puts them on notice that, |
so far as our people are concerned,
there is no New South that we
don't want don't ask and won't have any "NeW
South" that the old south, with Its stores of |
waa tn, brain and Drawn TO develop them. |
and with "iCs distinctive characteristics, whirh |
are the chief sources of this peoples great |
ness" is good enough for us. Here Is a man |
who can indeed speak for the south, no less in |
his Reputation of an often i've term than when |
he advises us that we shall teach our children |
t. love Sod, be loyal to the Union and to glory |
in the deeds of their ancestors. We do not |
need any "New sou h" in order to do this. We |
can love our country--our whole country-and |
teach children to love 1t, without the aid of |
a curriculum from New England. 1t is |
our Cuty, and should hG a cheerful |
one, 10 help strengthen rather than |
attempt to weaken the bonds of fraternity ex |
listing between all OF the free and equal states |
but in doing this we shOul refuse TO be trait |
ors to our own consciences as eNemplihed In q |
sacrifice of self respect.
Rather let us, in the interest of truth and |
right and Justice in the interest of q manhood !
and wOmanhood coming after-in the interest |
Of all these, let us hold up the pages of history
in fairness TO all and with malice toward none |
history undehled by the poliu- |
clans touch, unwarped by the mis-
taken phlanthropist. This much at
leastwe owe to posterity that the youth of the |
south may preserve its faith IN the Justice, the !
patriotism and the humanity of its ancestors.
say let the Puritan the Cavalier mentioned |
by Mr. Grady both have their histories Impair
record he has made Upon such footing the |
Cavalier of the south Will be willing to stand |
a submit his chances for histJric renown, but
he is not willing thai the Puritan of the north
should write the history of both north and |
south. In cur new zeal in the industrial fields